12-12-1998 -----> 12-12-2008
HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY to us
10 years in marriage, now with them 3...Umar, Zaky & Aqil; 5,2,8mths, growing day by day, year by year..
Some conversations with them last few days.
While Mummy drink up her drink in front of tele with Umar who's watching Ben10 on CartoonNetwork (can say he only 'got in' to CartoonNetwork from weeks ago, we prefer other kids channel)
Umar, "This episode is not only about Ben10 fighting, it's about how Ben10 got his Ben10 alien watch and how to use it to go to the planets that got aliens; So Ayah is right that I can watch ben10" while looking into my eyes..
Mummy, (??) "Owh..really.." :-)
Umar is actually taking a defending mode to make sure Mummy is ok he's watching this Ben10. Hehehehe... (Mummy wouldn't like his kids to watch all the fighting stuffs, be it in cartoons at early ages, 2,3.. (but Zaky watch what Umar's watching? :P) :-)
Mummy said to Umar,"Come on Umar, finish up your drink if you want to follow us to Giant" Mummy just wanted to bring him, leaving Zaky & Aqil. Right after saying that, Zaky came in front of me and looked deeply into my eyes and said, "Can I fowow you Mummy, can I..can I..." It's so cute moment! :-)The 2 year old asking. Lately he's always aware of any conversations around him, and understand the language very well, to our surprise.
At one time while Mummy was holding Aqil, Zaky came to me and said, "Cuddle me, cuddle me, Mummy.."
Mummy, "I'm holding Aqil Zaky.."
Then Zaky hold my hand like dragging me somewhere and said, "Put Aqil on the bed..Put him on the bed.." (??)
because he wants Mummy! LOL He thinks so well on how to tackle the problem! hahahhaha..
He always use politics to ask for things..."Can I.." "How about..." "May be.." He's not even 2 1/2 yet, but he's ever so good at language. Sometimes he said long sentences clearly to our surprise, from his thoughts, to ask things etc. Cool Zaky! Keep it up!..
And Aqil can understand if we ask him to clap and wave his hand, or most of the time his hands will be in the actions of "Come here, come here, come here.." :-) So cute :-) He's inputting the language vocabulary to his head at the moment. He can respond when you talk to him, probably you can hear, "Ah, ah.." "Ba, ba.." or "Ahhhhh! Ahhhhhh! " when calling for somebody! LOL
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Mother
A baby cried at night, Mum wanted to train her for sleeping through, so tried to ignore as much as she could (trying to follow few different ways on how to make baby sleep through by various child experts, from books etc!). Thinking of how much sleepless nights Mum have had since baby was born, and how it will affect her working day tomorrow.
While trying to ignore the crying baby, Mum thought.. Allah makes baby cries at night, when a mother wakes up to attend her baby or feed her, the reward is like going to the war of fisabilillah. SubhanaAllah..it's a huge reward that no other woman can gain except for a mother! How could we resist that?..How much the duniawi has ruled us, women, which mothers have to think more on other stuffs, eg work. Looking after your zuriat, bathe them, feed them, teach them 'Bismillah' and other foundations that will benefit them and us, mothers; as the rewards of ilmu yg diamalkan is rewarded everytime they use it, like "Bismillahirrahmanirrahim", imagine that word that you teach is used everyday in life! What more if the parents can teach their children more and more.. imagine the pahala from Allah, although we should be doing things sincerely because of Allah, but at least thinking of the pahala will make parents wanted to strive to teach their children, the duas, surahs and the akhlak.
A drop of mum's milk is a pahala for Mother, all from Allah. Imagine the most natural thing, the beautiful moment that Allah grant Mother and baby, is also rewarded pahala! SubhanaAllah.. So many things, natural motherhood that Allah designed for a woman that will gain back benefits to themselves, ourselves..Mothers.
After giving birth to a baby, Allah makes us, mothers like a new baby too, taking away all the dosa. Isn't that wonderful? The pain that we go through, gets the benefit of taking away our dosa. SubhanaAllah, how great is Allah, his creations and his way of designing every each things for everything, and for women, mothers. Yes..Allah put us to test, to gain his rewards in bringing up our zuriat, the patience, the tawakkal. May Allah give barakah to the Mothers.
"Who should we listen to..after Allah..and Rasullullah.."
"Who next?" "Your mother"
"Who next?" "Your mother"
"Who next?" "Your mother"
"And then your father.."
lyrics from a beautiful muslim children song. Again how high is the darjat of a mother that Allah has put us, from what we have been through, and will go through. SubhanaAllah. And that mother instinct that only mothers have for their children, when they are happy, sad, healthy, sick, hungry, thirsty etc etc, even what your child thinks, a mother knows! Isn't that amazing 6th sense, instinct that Allah granted to us, mothers.
MasyaAllah, SubhanaAllah...I'm so thankful to Allah for giving me the chance to be a mother.
*this is what i only know, may be others can add on more ilmu to be shared among us. thank you Allah.
While trying to ignore the crying baby, Mum thought.. Allah makes baby cries at night, when a mother wakes up to attend her baby or feed her, the reward is like going to the war of fisabilillah. SubhanaAllah..it's a huge reward that no other woman can gain except for a mother! How could we resist that?..How much the duniawi has ruled us, women, which mothers have to think more on other stuffs, eg work. Looking after your zuriat, bathe them, feed them, teach them 'Bismillah' and other foundations that will benefit them and us, mothers; as the rewards of ilmu yg diamalkan is rewarded everytime they use it, like "Bismillahirrahmanirrahim", imagine that word that you teach is used everyday in life! What more if the parents can teach their children more and more.. imagine the pahala from Allah, although we should be doing things sincerely because of Allah, but at least thinking of the pahala will make parents wanted to strive to teach their children, the duas, surahs and the akhlak.
A drop of mum's milk is a pahala for Mother, all from Allah. Imagine the most natural thing, the beautiful moment that Allah grant Mother and baby, is also rewarded pahala! SubhanaAllah.. So many things, natural motherhood that Allah designed for a woman that will gain back benefits to themselves, ourselves..Mothers.
After giving birth to a baby, Allah makes us, mothers like a new baby too, taking away all the dosa. Isn't that wonderful? The pain that we go through, gets the benefit of taking away our dosa. SubhanaAllah, how great is Allah, his creations and his way of designing every each things for everything, and for women, mothers. Yes..Allah put us to test, to gain his rewards in bringing up our zuriat, the patience, the tawakkal. May Allah give barakah to the Mothers.
"Who should we listen to..after Allah..and Rasullullah.."
"Who next?" "Your mother"
"Who next?" "Your mother"
"Who next?" "Your mother"
"And then your father.."
lyrics from a beautiful muslim children song. Again how high is the darjat of a mother that Allah has put us, from what we have been through, and will go through. SubhanaAllah. And that mother instinct that only mothers have for their children, when they are happy, sad, healthy, sick, hungry, thirsty etc etc, even what your child thinks, a mother knows! Isn't that amazing 6th sense, instinct that Allah granted to us, mothers.
MasyaAllah, SubhanaAllah...I'm so thankful to Allah for giving me the chance to be a mother.
*this is what i only know, may be others can add on more ilmu to be shared among us. thank you Allah.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Zaky..funny..
At breakfast this morning, we had murtabak or kids still call it canai..
When seeing a dot of curry spill on my plate, Zaky went..
"It's messy. on your plate Mummy" with his 'pelat' and still American :P
"Ok I'll wipe it" And after Mummy wiped it out,
"Are you sure?" ????? what do you mean Zaky?.. :P
Yea..he really takes it after his Mum! :P No mess, not a single dot :P And this actually makes it more work to look after him as he will call you to clean up when there's a tiny dot of spill or when he think his one finger is dirty! :P
"Wipe..wipe..wipe please... Mummy." :P
But with this, Zaky always create funny scenes to us :-)
After he finish his breakfast, then he asked Mummy,
"Where we go?" he meant where are we going today Mummy.
"We don't know yet Zaky"
"Go taxi" LOL Hahahahhahaha...He really is a fan of taxi in S'pore! since he came back for last year's trip, even when we went back to San Diego, he's still likes them, taxis of different colours, shapes etc.
"Yea of course, we haven't got a car yet :P :-) We will go on a taxi first to go anywhere.." :-)
Zaky..when he starts chatting with you, it's so interesting how this 2yr 4mths old toddler think and speak the language. He knows all alphabets and its phonics but doesn't know the abc song at all!
Now only Aqil got his toy that sing abc song, so Zaky started listening to it, sometimes :-) With less time spent on him individually (yea..with Umar and baby Aqil on the other hand! :P), it's amazing how much he has learnt in his 2 yrs of life. He knows to count and recognise 1-10, and 11, 12, then Mummy will say 13, 14, then to our surprise he said, "15!" so now he's in the level of learning 11-20. Well done Zaky.
Another funny thing, when he plays "knock-knock" game with you.
Zaky, "Knock, knock"
Mummy/Ayah/Umar/Others, "Who's there?"
Zaky, "Banana.."
Mummy/Ayah/Umar/Others, "Banana who?"
Zaky, "Ice-cream for you..." with his cute 'pelat' sounds like this "Ice-kim forr you.."
Anything he answers will be ended with "ice-kim for you.." LOL
Mummy only have a short time to write about them, my boys in this bloggy; lotsa other funny things with them, wish I can record them all. To be able to write this length of story, it took about 2 hours while doing other stuff at the same time, like giving bath to Aqil, Zaky!, shot a short video of Zaky playing on his own, with his imaginary stories etc, so cute... and macam2 lagi. On-off the computer to get things sorted with the kids :P
Now Zaky's coming to me and saying,
"I'm hungry..Soya, Soya" "I'm hungry, Soya, soya please.." LOL
He will say hungry for food and drink..
we r trying to teach him to use the word, "thirsty" :-)
.pause.
He has his own I-Spy game lines, a bit different from the usual I-Spy, this is what a 2 yr old I-Spy! :-)
"I spy a robot" zaky and expecting you to ask more! :P
"where?"
"In the tree" zaky
"What colour is it?"
"it's yellow" zaky
"And what is it?"
"It's Bumble Bee" zaky (from his transformers! :P) :-D
and this conversation will be on whenever he feels like asking it! Can be a number of times everyday! LOL :-)
When seeing a dot of curry spill on my plate, Zaky went..
"It's messy. on your plate Mummy" with his 'pelat' and still American :P
"Ok I'll wipe it" And after Mummy wiped it out,
"Are you sure?" ????? what do you mean Zaky?.. :P
Yea..he really takes it after his Mum! :P No mess, not a single dot :P And this actually makes it more work to look after him as he will call you to clean up when there's a tiny dot of spill or when he think his one finger is dirty! :P
"Wipe..wipe..wipe please... Mummy." :P
But with this, Zaky always create funny scenes to us :-)
After he finish his breakfast, then he asked Mummy,
"Where we go?" he meant where are we going today Mummy.
"We don't know yet Zaky"
"Go taxi" LOL Hahahahhahaha...He really is a fan of taxi in S'pore! since he came back for last year's trip, even when we went back to San Diego, he's still likes them, taxis of different colours, shapes etc.
"Yea of course, we haven't got a car yet :P :-) We will go on a taxi first to go anywhere.." :-)
Zaky..when he starts chatting with you, it's so interesting how this 2yr 4mths old toddler think and speak the language. He knows all alphabets and its phonics but doesn't know the abc song at all!
Now only Aqil got his toy that sing abc song, so Zaky started listening to it, sometimes :-) With less time spent on him individually (yea..with Umar and baby Aqil on the other hand! :P), it's amazing how much he has learnt in his 2 yrs of life. He knows to count and recognise 1-10, and 11, 12, then Mummy will say 13, 14, then to our surprise he said, "15!" so now he's in the level of learning 11-20. Well done Zaky.
Another funny thing, when he plays "knock-knock" game with you.
Zaky, "Knock, knock"
Mummy/Ayah/Umar/Others, "Who's there?"
Zaky, "Banana.."
Mummy/Ayah/Umar/Others, "Banana who?"
Zaky, "Ice-cream for you..." with his cute 'pelat' sounds like this "Ice-kim forr you.."
Anything he answers will be ended with "ice-kim for you.." LOL
Mummy only have a short time to write about them, my boys in this bloggy; lotsa other funny things with them, wish I can record them all. To be able to write this length of story, it took about 2 hours while doing other stuff at the same time, like giving bath to Aqil, Zaky!, shot a short video of Zaky playing on his own, with his imaginary stories etc, so cute... and macam2 lagi. On-off the computer to get things sorted with the kids :P
Now Zaky's coming to me and saying,
"I'm hungry..Soya, Soya" "I'm hungry, Soya, soya please.." LOL
He will say hungry for food and drink..
we r trying to teach him to use the word, "thirsty" :-)
.pause.
He has his own I-Spy game lines, a bit different from the usual I-Spy, this is what a 2 yr old I-Spy! :-)
"I spy a robot" zaky and expecting you to ask more! :P
"where?"
"In the tree" zaky
"What colour is it?"
"it's yellow" zaky
"And what is it?"
"It's Bumble Bee" zaky (from his transformers! :P) :-D
and this conversation will be on whenever he feels like asking it! Can be a number of times everyday! LOL :-)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
20 days in Asia
It's 20 days today we've been living in Asia, SG. After 8 1/2yrs in UK and 3 yrs in the States.
Adjusting to;
1) weather
2) culture :P
3) food! Yum, yum.
4) bathroom! :P
5) circle of family&friends
6) night life!
7) less child friendly spaces :P
8) tight space for strollers! basically anywhere.. :P
9) supermarket is a no-no place for children :P we miss them wander around, learning things at supermarket :-(
10) less pedestrian priority in the urban design! :P
11) my kids cannot understand why adults like to tease them, kids :P (i can't understand either, totally different culture how society treat them kids..teach them, not tease them :P)
12) big, long grass at greens...not a place to look for bugs Umar! u might see a snake! :P
13) spider, lizard! Yikes! :P
14) rain! Big rains!
14) more laundry! :P
15) driving attitude! :P
ETC ETC ETC
However you cannot buy the time you can meet up your big family members more often than ever before! priceless.
Adjusting to;
1) weather
2) culture :P
3) food! Yum, yum.
4) bathroom! :P
5) circle of family&friends
6) night life!
7) less child friendly spaces :P
8) tight space for strollers! basically anywhere.. :P
9) supermarket is a no-no place for children :P we miss them wander around, learning things at supermarket :-(
10) less pedestrian priority in the urban design! :P
11) my kids cannot understand why adults like to tease them, kids :P (i can't understand either, totally different culture how society treat them kids..teach them, not tease them :P)
12) big, long grass at greens...not a place to look for bugs Umar! u might see a snake! :P
13) spider, lizard! Yikes! :P
14) rain! Big rains!
14) more laundry! :P
15) driving attitude! :P
ETC ETC ETC
However you cannot buy the time you can meet up your big family members more often than ever before! priceless.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Good Morning and Good Night
Today, when Umar was putting on his clothes, after Mummy helped him putting on some lotion; Zaky came to us still with his pyjamas and said,
"Mm-morning A-mar.."
"Mm-morning hair." Looking at Umar's hair.
"Mm-morning feet." Looking at Umar's feet.
"Mm-morning socks." Looking at Umar's socks.
"Mm-morning Mummy!"
hey..I'm the last one?... :P
That is Zaky who's 2 yrs and 1 mth old! He's a funny boy! with funny toddler's language! :-)
At night before he goes to sleep,
"A-night A-mar.."
"A-night train."
"A-night car."
"A-night truck."
"A-night Ayah."
"A-night bankie."
And whenever he accidentally bump into you, or things! when he's running or walking..
"Sowwy A-mar."
"Sowwy Mummy."
"Sowwy A-yah."
"Sowwy E-kel"
"Sowwy train."
"Sowwy car."
"Sowwy truck."
"Sowwy chair."
and many more...sometimes a few "sowwies" at one time.. Hahahaha... So funny Zaky is! :-)
If things go wrong to his cars, trains, trucks; he will come to you and said,
"O-o..'boken'.." "fix..fix.." LOL
And he's becoming more and more better in using sentences...3 word sentence. :-) Or sometimes you can just hear what's the first and last part of a sentence!
eg.."Look me Mummy.." (Look at me Mummy..)
"Where you A-mar..?.." (Where are you Umar..)
:-) Everyday Zaky will make us all smile and laugh. Thank you Zaky! :-)
Apart from learning to speak sentences, Zaky is also into writing. 2nd child always follow what the elder one does, therefore he actually can learn faster. Zaky loves to scribble, do colouring, all sorts. Sampai habis semua colouring book Umar habis di'colour'kannya, pasal Umar pun tak buat! :P I can tell that his motor skill is better compared to Umar at this age. This is all because he does lots of things by himself..pasal Mummy busy! :P With baby Aqil and everything in the house! :P
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
3 funny things today.
Mummy was using skype with Ayah who was at his office. Umar took over and Mummy went away from the computer. Suddenly, Umar shouting at me..
"Mummy! Mummy! Ayah is smoking!"
Yea Umar, he does smoke. But how do you know he is smoking at his office?
"He says he's smoking!"
So Mummy went to the computer then saw the 'person smoking' emoticon that Ayah typed responding to what Mummy just typed to him. Hahaha..LOL Umar..Umar
"It's just an emoticon Umar..doesn't mean he's smoking"
Then after like 5mins, again..
"Mummy, Ayah said there's a bandit at his office!"
Ha?...Really?.. (I thought Ayah surely did type the story to him, as he can read..)
So again I went to the computer, and asked Umar. "Where did Ayah typed it?" It was already a number of lines of words and emoticons (esp. Umar he used emoticons all the time, he only know typing his name, Zaky, go, bye and few simple ones! :P)
So eagerly Umar scrolled up, "It's here Mummy.." "Where is it Umar?.."
I never thought this time, it's a bandit emoticon! LOL LOL
It's just an emoticon Umar, it doesn't mean there's a bandit at Ayah's office. LOL
And the 3rd funny thing, at the end of the day. After Ayah came back fr work, talked to Umar, knowing he did nothing today except for computer, television and playing with toys. So Ayah decided to create a spelling game with him. He's not interested at all! :P So Ayah suggested to give him a quarter for every word he can spell. Still not interested! :P (even asking, "How about a dollar!?" :P) Although with Mummy's encouragement at the background (was busy in the kitchen! :P) Then Ayah said,
"U know what..four quarters will make a dollar that can buy you one hot wheel car! And you can choose whichever you like!" "If you do good, you can buy it every week!" Hhhmmm sounds like a good deal to him now.. :P Then know what he said?..
"But if they ask me for the credit card to pay, I don't have one!"
LOL LOL (then Ayah had to explain to him about credit card! :P)
The other day we were talking about him going to school from morning until 2pm, where Mummy or Ayah will pick him up after school. Then he said,
"I don't have a mobile phone that you can contact me to know where I am at school.." LOL probably at this age 4/5, the way they think is kinda funny to us, parents! .. Hahaha.. :-)
"Mummy! Mummy! Ayah is smoking!"
Yea Umar, he does smoke. But how do you know he is smoking at his office?
"He says he's smoking!"
So Mummy went to the computer then saw the 'person smoking' emoticon that Ayah typed responding to what Mummy just typed to him. Hahaha..LOL Umar..Umar
"It's just an emoticon Umar..doesn't mean he's smoking"
Then after like 5mins, again..
"Mummy, Ayah said there's a bandit at his office!"
Ha?...Really?.. (I thought Ayah surely did type the story to him, as he can read..)
So again I went to the computer, and asked Umar. "Where did Ayah typed it?" It was already a number of lines of words and emoticons (esp. Umar he used emoticons all the time, he only know typing his name, Zaky, go, bye and few simple ones! :P)
So eagerly Umar scrolled up, "It's here Mummy.." "Where is it Umar?.."
I never thought this time, it's a bandit emoticon! LOL LOL
It's just an emoticon Umar, it doesn't mean there's a bandit at Ayah's office. LOL
And the 3rd funny thing, at the end of the day. After Ayah came back fr work, talked to Umar, knowing he did nothing today except for computer, television and playing with toys. So Ayah decided to create a spelling game with him. He's not interested at all! :P So Ayah suggested to give him a quarter for every word he can spell. Still not interested! :P (even asking, "How about a dollar!?" :P) Although with Mummy's encouragement at the background (was busy in the kitchen! :P) Then Ayah said,
"U know what..four quarters will make a dollar that can buy you one hot wheel car! And you can choose whichever you like!" "If you do good, you can buy it every week!" Hhhmmm sounds like a good deal to him now.. :P Then know what he said?..
"But if they ask me for the credit card to pay, I don't have one!"
LOL LOL (then Ayah had to explain to him about credit card! :P)
The other day we were talking about him going to school from morning until 2pm, where Mummy or Ayah will pick him up after school. Then he said,
"I don't have a mobile phone that you can contact me to know where I am at school.." LOL probably at this age 4/5, the way they think is kinda funny to us, parents! .. Hahaha.. :-)
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Preschoolers speak.
Umar with his preschool teacher, Teacher Mary; on his last day of preschool.Umar always claimed he's a big brother (he'll be 5 in 25days!) and wanted to do things by himself. Since Mummy got 3 to look after, I let him do/try things on his own. Eg he can get ready by himself now, from brushing teeth, shower to putting on clothes. He can get his own breakfast, that is cereal with milk. One day, he poured juice for himself (normally i asked him to do it on the floor, in case it spills (it happened!:P), then Zaky wanted it too. So Umar helped to pour for Zaky too. Then Zaky wanted more after he finished his. Mummy told Umar to just give him a little bit more.
Umar, "I'll give him one drop".
Mummy, "I think 3 drops is ok"
Then I saw Zaky bringing his cup with more than half cup full! :-0
"Umar, Mummy said only 3 drops"
Umar, "That is 3 drops!" LOL
On a different occasion, it was a field trip day to a Nature Reserve for Umar's school. It was when Aqil's only about 6wks old, so I wouldn't want to bring him in the woods. Therefore, Ayah brought Umar for the trip. Before he left the house, he asked Mummy,
"Will there be a geizer there?"
Mummy was surprised he used the word geizer, and so I asked him what is geizer and where did he learnt it from.
"Geizer is something that shoots out hot water" "And I learn it from Jay-Jay The Jet Plane"
At least he got something from watching too much television! :-) :-P
On a different day Umar, Mummy & Zaky having our meal. Umar suddenly brought up a subject of a family. Umar said,
"One day I will have my own family like you Mummy"
Mummy ???
"You marry Ayah. Who will I marry?"
Mummy, "A girl that you like"
Umar, "You mean like Antonia..?.."
Mummy, "yes.." Antonia is a very sweet, polite girl in his class. Umar onced poured sand on her long hair, and she was all ok! did not cry! And she always talked/asked teacher Mary lotsa of questions but on her own!.. A very good girl! yeah Umar, I don't mind if it's Antonia.. Hahaha.. LOL
One day Umar was playing games from one of his websites (eg NickJr, PBSKids etc), and a spaceship goes through Milky Way galaxy. And he said,
"I bet there's a lot of milk there.." LOL
On a different day, he decorated his scooter (yes, we play scooter in the house! and sometimes bring it outside) with whatever he can found in the house. And he came to Mummy with the scooter and said,
"Look how I customized the scooter!"
sometimes it surprised me the vocabulary that he has, and we never thought a 4yr old can use those words.
And today, while having lunch. Umar said,
" Mummy, why don't we buy the x-ray machine and see what's happening when the food goes to our stomach. We can see what's happening inside our body"
Mummy, "I think it costs us too much to buy that Umar, probably tens of thousands, which we can buy a car with that money..and bla, bla, bla..." mummy pun explain nyer sampai ke visiting doctors, hospitals, they charge us x-ray fee etc etc. LOL
*Mummy put some key word notes on a piece of paper to be able to remember some of those moments of his speech. Until one day I have a bit of spare time like this to write it down for our family memory, and now Aqil started crying! gtg....
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Umar's 1st Person!
At last...I can see the 1st person drawing Umar draw on his very own! Happened earlier this month. (there was 1,2 occasion Mummy tried to ask him to follow the stick man drawing that I did, but to no avail! :-P) I always wonder when can he start to draw a person, which that's what normally a child be able to draw using their memory and imagination. Like Umar's preschool teacher said, to be able to draw a person, it will require such a skill from a child, not by teaching them on how to draw it. It's by their memory and imagination. Be it stick man, with/without hand etc. Today, at the clinic! While waiting for Aqil's turn for his 1st imunisation, he wanted to have a paper and a pen to draw because there were 2 siblings age 6,7 were drawing! :-P After he didn't like what he started on the plain paper from the receptionist, Mummy gave him the doctor's notes, and asked him to draw at the back of it. Then with a bit of encouragement, he started to draw a circle, soon he said, 'hey, this looks like a rock'. 'Isn't it great to have a big rock at the park Mummy?'.. sure it is. 'So what is that rock for Umar?'... 'Mmmm...children can slide down the rock'. Soon he drew a rectangle that he claimed to be bouncy so that children will land safely! LOL Then Mummy said, 'may be you can draw somebody using it'.. Luckily he accepted my view and drew one person on top of the rock! (clap,clap,clap)..Mummy was so excited to see it! :-) Then that person has another friend at the bottom of the rock, but soon he claimed this person is actually the father because he's tall! LOL And he drew another person who he claimed as Mummy who's waiting for the child on the rock to slide down and waving at the child! LOL
'So how's the park that day Umar, is it nice weather there?'...'Mmmm...it's a sunny day so children can play all day long' LOL so Umar drew the sun! Eventually he thought that the rock is too high so it needs a rope to climb up, and an arch to get thru it! LOL So there is Umar's 1st drawing of person! Well done Umar!..
Monday, May 12, 2008
All about Umar
Umar just turned 4yrs and 9mths last 2 days. Our 1st boy is going to be 5 yrs old this year. How time flies. Have not written about Umar for a long time.
He's getting smarter each day, and also getting harder! to listen to Mummy&Ayah especially to do educational things. Mummy is a bit scared because he's started to say boring, and don't like all the educational things i.e. his activity books that has been abandoned for a while, his colouring book that Zaky has used them all! (I pray to Allah he's going to be fine learning at school starting this September!)
Umar is more into computer games, which 90% is from the children's website (Noggin, Disney, CBeebies etc), which is not so bad. The 10% is the car racing game etc, which he got to play with his dad on weekends conditionally! when he does 2,3 pages of his activity book, be it Maths or others (this started since 2 wks ago and it worked)
However Umar always amazed us with his speech and thinking. One day at school, the topic at circle time was about Energy, source of energy and how to save energy. When teacher Mary asked about energy, Umar told the class about electricity, energy from the sun! batteries! and how not to waste them! I was surprised that all that Mummy talking (and nagging! :-P) to him spontaneously in daily life made him think and be part of his knowledge. Alhamdulillah.. And next Ayah told us about geo-thermal energy! Mummy also learn new things! :-)
Another day when he got to put number 2 for May calendar at school. He showed me and said, "Hey Mummy..this looks like number 2 in Arabic!" (when he turned it the other way) I looked at it and "Yes! it is.." I was surprised myself how did he remembered it. I only showed him the pages number (in Arabic) when we read Iqra'.
All in all I think talking to your children about anything and everything in daily lives makes them think and think. They might not ask you anything at that time but you never knew how much knowledge that is absorbed to their brain each day, if not it is practicing their brain to think, resolve things and memory! that is vital for future use when they start school.
When teacher Mary asked how did you know about all the months of the year? Umar said, "from the song in the car!" I nodded to the teacher when she looked at me.. We have few children's cds that is about basic learning, alphabets, numbers, Simon says game etc. Mummy turned the cd on alternately and it's fun for them and unconsciously they got it! easily!.. Now they also got dvd to watch in the car. Short journey, we TRY! not to let them watch dvd :-P
One day, few weeks ago Mummy got the chance to get Umar interested to do odd & even numbers, and Mummy's intention was to make him learn more about numbers after 100. Alhamdulillah..like playing game with him, we did it until 200+, that is until there's no more space to write on the board! Mummy also tried to get him understand about quarter, half etc. It's good enough to get him into the ideas first, not forcing him to know lotsa things at one go.. But! When there is opportunity, teach them as much as we can! (Ha,ha,ha!:-) )That's what Mummy does... Especially when I got 2 children, now 3! It is so hard to find the time to teach Umar alone. But what is good is that Zaky always interested in whatever we do. Any activity with Umar we got to involve him! In a way Zaky learn a lot for his age.
This is what Mummy got Umar into for about an hour or so. While having fun with him of course. If he doesn't think it's fun and games, Mummy won't be able to do this! So there r times that we got things for 10 minutes, sometimes more.. It's all depends on how long we can get their attention in having fun in learning.
And this is when Mummy tried to get him to start to draw. The 2 paper are on a different day! I told him that drawing shapes make you can draw lotsa things that you can imagine. There was Diego&Dora storybook next to us, so I flipped and showed him a picture of trees and flowers and how easy it is to draw them, with shapes. So I did and he followed suit.. And we play the games of how many different types of green and brown can we create for the trees..(making him wanted to do varieties! meaning more trees to draw! and don't forget to praise them!) and same goes with the flowers. So at least I know my son can draw a bit now... The next week I encouraged him to make a Teacher's Day card to teacher Mary. I told him girls love flowers, so does teacher Mary, and how happy will teacher Mary be to get a card full of colourful flowers. So he did... the project over 2 days to finish! :-P But he did it:-) (it was.. a big card.)
In teaching him to read Quran, Umar now is at Iqra' 3, another 10 pages to finish and he can start Iqra' 4. Mummy always trying to get him interested (whenever I have time, when am not busy with baby Aqil!) , but sometimes failing to do so.. Wish we can finish the 6 Iqra' before he starts school in September.. just go with the flow. Ops! I got to return call for Umar's placement test for his new school in September! We hope you can get to the Islamic School Umar... Aminn...
He's getting smarter each day, and also getting harder! to listen to Mummy&Ayah especially to do educational things. Mummy is a bit scared because he's started to say boring, and don't like all the educational things i.e. his activity books that has been abandoned for a while, his colouring book that Zaky has used them all! (I pray to Allah he's going to be fine learning at school starting this September!)
Umar is more into computer games, which 90% is from the children's website (Noggin, Disney, CBeebies etc), which is not so bad. The 10% is the car racing game etc, which he got to play with his dad on weekends conditionally! when he does 2,3 pages of his activity book, be it Maths or others (this started since 2 wks ago and it worked)
However Umar always amazed us with his speech and thinking. One day at school, the topic at circle time was about Energy, source of energy and how to save energy. When teacher Mary asked about energy, Umar told the class about electricity, energy from the sun! batteries! and how not to waste them! I was surprised that all that Mummy talking (and nagging! :-P) to him spontaneously in daily life made him think and be part of his knowledge. Alhamdulillah.. And next Ayah told us about geo-thermal energy! Mummy also learn new things! :-)
Another day when he got to put number 2 for May calendar at school. He showed me and said, "Hey Mummy..this looks like number 2 in Arabic!" (when he turned it the other way) I looked at it and "Yes! it is.." I was surprised myself how did he remembered it. I only showed him the pages number (in Arabic) when we read Iqra'.
All in all I think talking to your children about anything and everything in daily lives makes them think and think. They might not ask you anything at that time but you never knew how much knowledge that is absorbed to their brain each day, if not it is practicing their brain to think, resolve things and memory! that is vital for future use when they start school.
When teacher Mary asked how did you know about all the months of the year? Umar said, "from the song in the car!" I nodded to the teacher when she looked at me.. We have few children's cds that is about basic learning, alphabets, numbers, Simon says game etc. Mummy turned the cd on alternately and it's fun for them and unconsciously they got it! easily!.. Now they also got dvd to watch in the car. Short journey, we TRY! not to let them watch dvd :-P
One day, few weeks ago Mummy got the chance to get Umar interested to do odd & even numbers, and Mummy's intention was to make him learn more about numbers after 100. Alhamdulillah..like playing game with him, we did it until 200+, that is until there's no more space to write on the board! Mummy also tried to get him understand about quarter, half etc. It's good enough to get him into the ideas first, not forcing him to know lotsa things at one go.. But! When there is opportunity, teach them as much as we can! (Ha,ha,ha!:-) )That's what Mummy does... Especially when I got 2 children, now 3! It is so hard to find the time to teach Umar alone. But what is good is that Zaky always interested in whatever we do. Any activity with Umar we got to involve him! In a way Zaky learn a lot for his age.
This is what Mummy got Umar into for about an hour or so. While having fun with him of course. If he doesn't think it's fun and games, Mummy won't be able to do this! So there r times that we got things for 10 minutes, sometimes more.. It's all depends on how long we can get their attention in having fun in learning.
And this is when Mummy tried to get him to start to draw. The 2 paper are on a different day! I told him that drawing shapes make you can draw lotsa things that you can imagine. There was Diego&Dora storybook next to us, so I flipped and showed him a picture of trees and flowers and how easy it is to draw them, with shapes. So I did and he followed suit.. And we play the games of how many different types of green and brown can we create for the trees..(making him wanted to do varieties! meaning more trees to draw! and don't forget to praise them!) and same goes with the flowers. So at least I know my son can draw a bit now... The next week I encouraged him to make a Teacher's Day card to teacher Mary. I told him girls love flowers, so does teacher Mary, and how happy will teacher Mary be to get a card full of colourful flowers. So he did... the project over 2 days to finish! :-P But he did it:-) (it was.. a big card.)In teaching him to read Quran, Umar now is at Iqra' 3, another 10 pages to finish and he can start Iqra' 4. Mummy always trying to get him interested (whenever I have time, when am not busy with baby Aqil!) , but sometimes failing to do so.. Wish we can finish the 6 Iqra' before he starts school in September.. just go with the flow. Ops! I got to return call for Umar's placement test for his new school in September! We hope you can get to the Islamic School Umar... Aminn...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Zaky at 22 months
Just received e-mail fr BabyCentre.co.uk to remind this hands-full Mummy that our 2nd boy, Zaky is 22 months today. And this is excerpt for the topic,
Sets Goals.
Your toddler will begin to have very particular ideas about what he wants to accomplish, such as pushing his car down the path or fitting together all the pieces in a puzzle. The outcome will be important to him. He will be pleased when he's successful and frustrated when he is unsuccessful.
Ooohhh...I remember his everyday plays involve around this. He can fit Thomas' rail tracks together! it was to our surprise that one day he did it until it goes outside the room! he just continue as long as he likes! Hahahaha...He tried puzzle (Umar's) on his own..although it's not right, he was happy with it! hahaha...(at least he got the idea!), He mastered shape sorting puzzle. His favourite is lining up his hotwheel's cars together, can be up to 8 vehicles at one time, nicely arranged! :-) And lots more other interesting things for this toddler! Well done Zaky!
On the language part, he can do 2 word sentence..most of it still with his 'pelat'..so cute, that we have to translate them ourselves! Hahaha...He knows lotsa animals and how they sound (he got it most at his 'song time' with Ayah at his bedtime..he will go, "Song, song.." then Ayah asked what song do you like? He will say, "Fish.."
"1 2 3 4 5, Once I caught a fish alive..6 7 8 9 10, the I let it go again...,...." (Americans don't know this, British do!..) And the Old McDonald song, he will choose what animal, and making the sound with Ayah.. (he also knows turtle, hippo, frog(1st animal that he recognised!), alligator..and duck of course! :-)
And also to our surprise, he can count (or rather say!) 1 to 5!, after that jumbled up..up to 10. But at least he always use 1,2,3 to count things! Good Zaky!.. He knows some colours, sometimes he got it right, sometimes he says whatever he likes! Hahaha... he recognised simple shapes too. Other words are aeroplane (air-pane), helicopter (coper), fire truck (fa-yer!) yeah, a number of these vehicles he encountered here! everyday! hehehe... and not to forget his old time favourite, until today.."Taxi!" he got it from our S'pore holiday last year! Until now whenever he sees cars, he will likely say taxi!..Hahahaha...
Nowadays when he heard any sound that's not familiar, he will say," What's that?" or rather u hear 'wat-thet?"...hehehehe.. Also another phrase of his is, "Watch Out!!"..(with full facial expression!) he must have got it fr any of children's programme on tele! :-P Other funny one is "Find you!" to people and things! His blankie as usual.."Bankie, bankie.. r.... u....?.." (where r u? with leeenngthhy echooo...hehehe...) then when he found it, after searching the whole house!.."Find you!" or u may hear "Find-ju".. Hahahaha... :-) So funny to see Zaky using "find you" to basically anything!..Hahahaha.. :-)
Another thing, He always pulled you to the kitchen for food! And choosy!! Urrghhh..:-P Never said please..but always say "Te-ku" (thank you!)... Good boy Zaky!
And he can interact well especially at playing computer games with Umar. It's so funny to see esp. when Umar asked him what does he wants to choose for his car colour, wheels, pattern etc at hotwheels car games. He will say the colour, then Umar tried his best to scroll thru, asking him each of them..and Zaky will say a different colour fr what is shown...and until the last choice, Umar will ask, "Is it this one Zaky?" And Zaky will go... "No..".. Geleng kepala si abang Umar!.. :-) Hahahaha..
Lots more funny, interesting things with Zaky... Guess this story sums up our 22 mth old toddler that is growing each day, becoming smarter each day... And more cheeky! Like to tease you! (running away with yr things etc!) Zaky..Zaky.. :-) We all love you dearly..
Sets Goals.
Your toddler will begin to have very particular ideas about what he wants to accomplish, such as pushing his car down the path or fitting together all the pieces in a puzzle. The outcome will be important to him. He will be pleased when he's successful and frustrated when he is unsuccessful.
Ooohhh...I remember his everyday plays involve around this. He can fit Thomas' rail tracks together! it was to our surprise that one day he did it until it goes outside the room! he just continue as long as he likes! Hahahaha...He tried puzzle (Umar's) on his own..although it's not right, he was happy with it! hahaha...(at least he got the idea!), He mastered shape sorting puzzle. His favourite is lining up his hotwheel's cars together, can be up to 8 vehicles at one time, nicely arranged! :-) And lots more other interesting things for this toddler! Well done Zaky!
On the language part, he can do 2 word sentence..most of it still with his 'pelat'..so cute, that we have to translate them ourselves! Hahaha...He knows lotsa animals and how they sound (he got it most at his 'song time' with Ayah at his bedtime..he will go, "Song, song.." then Ayah asked what song do you like? He will say, "Fish.."
"1 2 3 4 5, Once I caught a fish alive..6 7 8 9 10, the I let it go again...,...." (Americans don't know this, British do!..) And the Old McDonald song, he will choose what animal, and making the sound with Ayah.. (he also knows turtle, hippo, frog(1st animal that he recognised!), alligator..and duck of course! :-)
And also to our surprise, he can count (or rather say!) 1 to 5!, after that jumbled up..up to 10. But at least he always use 1,2,3 to count things! Good Zaky!.. He knows some colours, sometimes he got it right, sometimes he says whatever he likes! Hahaha... he recognised simple shapes too. Other words are aeroplane (air-pane), helicopter (coper), fire truck (fa-yer!) yeah, a number of these vehicles he encountered here! everyday! hehehe... and not to forget his old time favourite, until today.."Taxi!" he got it from our S'pore holiday last year! Until now whenever he sees cars, he will likely say taxi!..Hahahaha...
Nowadays when he heard any sound that's not familiar, he will say," What's that?" or rather u hear 'wat-thet?"...hehehehe.. Also another phrase of his is, "Watch Out!!"..(with full facial expression!) he must have got it fr any of children's programme on tele! :-P Other funny one is "Find you!" to people and things! His blankie as usual.."Bankie, bankie.. r.... u....?.." (where r u? with leeenngthhy echooo...hehehe...) then when he found it, after searching the whole house!.."Find you!" or u may hear "Find-ju".. Hahahaha... :-) So funny to see Zaky using "find you" to basically anything!..Hahahaha.. :-)
Another thing, He always pulled you to the kitchen for food! And choosy!! Urrghhh..:-P Never said please..but always say "Te-ku" (thank you!)... Good boy Zaky!
And he can interact well especially at playing computer games with Umar. It's so funny to see esp. when Umar asked him what does he wants to choose for his car colour, wheels, pattern etc at hotwheels car games. He will say the colour, then Umar tried his best to scroll thru, asking him each of them..and Zaky will say a different colour fr what is shown...and until the last choice, Umar will ask, "Is it this one Zaky?" And Zaky will go... "No..".. Geleng kepala si abang Umar!.. :-) Hahahaha..
Lots more funny, interesting things with Zaky... Guess this story sums up our 22 mth old toddler that is growing each day, becoming smarter each day... And more cheeky! Like to tease you! (running away with yr things etc!) Zaky..Zaky.. :-) We all love you dearly..
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Coming home with baby Aqil...
After birth pain & contraction...Hardly heard Mums talking about this. And I just knew from chatting with nurses at the hospital. The more numbers you give birth, the more after birth pain & contraction you will get! It's because the uterus works/contracts harder to get it back to usual size. No wonder.. And of course I do experience this, for this 3rd child is the worst!..At least during labour, u can opt for epidural. But after birth only the pain killer, which u can still feel the contraction pain! So much pain!..(sabar..) And also since I had forcep delivery the soreness at your pelvic area...Aarrgghhh...My gynae sister said it's the forcep tool that give abbrasion to the inside of vagina! I felt all these pain, soreness.. However this time I only got a bit of episiotomy cut. Thanks to Dr Simpson (male gynae). Naz said he's very good, even comparing to my previous female gynae when we had Zaky (I got 4th degree tear then!:-P)
2 days at the hospital after delivery...then Mummy&baby can come home. Our first ride in the car with baby Aqil, altogether 6 of us, with Aunty Nun, that flew fr S'pore to give Mummy a helping hand for 3 mths! Thank you Aunty Nun! Thank you so much!..:-) Umar was willing to sit at the back row, so excited that the new baby's coming home. Every few minutes, asking Ayah to drive slowly, in case baby's not comfortable if it's bumpy ride! Hahahaha....
And I remember his 1st conversation with baby Aqil at the hospital...He was looking at baby Aqil and said,
"Soon you will have a set of teeth like me Aqil.."
hahahahha....
On 5th day, Baby Aqil's 1st appointment to see paediatrician. First time for Mummy to get the bottle for him to pack his milk, breast milk! As usual, my milk is already over flowing, so it's handy to get them in the bottle for going out. This is just in case of situation of not the right place, and time (I need at least 20-30mins for a session of breast feeding!)
He's all well except for jaundice. Umar&Zaky both got jaundice for about 4 wks when they were born. So straight to the lab for blood test (it seems like we r used to this before with Zaky!). Doctor called and the results was 16. It was high but less than 20, so doc advised baby to be put under sun ray 4 times a day. Unlike Zaky before, we gotta go to clinic every 3-4 days for another check up on jaundice. Ohh..we forgot to ask for circumcision. Zaky had circumcision at the hospital, but new recommendation is to do when baby is about a week old. So we got baby Aqil's circumcision appointment on his 9th day.
Our 3rd baby! Aqil..
On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at12.00am, my water broke...I was already 3cm dilated the day before. At last..this is it..We all were waiting for this baby since 2 weeks ago! Since Umar was born at 36+wks, Zaky at 38wks. And this baby is at his actual due date! (which at first Mummy thought March 27! :-P) Call hospital, they asked to come for check-up. Was hard for the doc whether I can go home or should stay. Eventually they asked me to stay although I was still at 3cm. So 2.10am, straight to labour room for drip, then pitocin. Progress was slow...At 9am, I asked epidural, I was about 5-6cm then. At 2pm I was fully dilated, but baby's spine is at the side. Therefore when it's time to push, I have to be moved left and right alternately hoping the baby will turn for it to come out! My God..what an experience! U'r in total pain, and still have to move yr body left and right, and also I was given oxygen for a while coz the baby's heart rate is not good. I was vomiting 2-3 times at the same time! After more than hour, the baby's position is still the same. Doctor made decision for forcep delivery in Operation room, and if baby cannot be turned, C section will be done straight away! (I was praying, "Please no C Section..") So my bed being pushed to operation room, with anesthetist to add more of epidural! With oxygen mask for the baby! (not for me!:-P) that made me vomitted again! & again!..OMG all those moments..I felt like a dream..I was so light headed (mabuk mcm gini agaknya..), blurry, can listen to what people speaking..can see baby been pulled out, wiped, & Naz been asked to cut the cord. After all that, (a nurse offered us to take a picture with the baby in that Operation room! Cool!..:-) ) I was pushed to the my room again, still light headed, blurry vision.. for the next half an hr.
alhamdulillah... Welcome baby Aqil!...
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Umar, Zaky, Arissa & Sofea...Holiday together!..
These pictures from Arissa&Sofea's Daddy of http://kitab-atok.blogspot.com/
19Dec07-1Jan08
13 days of Happy Holidays for the 2 families...Used to live not far from each other but now separated by the Atlantic Ocean. We have not seen each for about 2 yrs since we moved to San Diego from UK.
What do we do..where do we go...
Eating, shopping, sight seeing...and children having fun time together..
San Diego attractions.. SeaWorld 3 times! La Jolla shores, La Jolla Cove, Downtown San Diego, SeaPort Village, Coronado Island, beach; Old Town San Diego, Laguna Mountain for the snow!, Wild Animal Park, Viejas Outlet, Las Americas Outlet, Carlsbad Outlet!..(not to mention other shopping places nearby!)..
Hollywood!!!..Boomers for the kids..And we managed to have mini bbq, with Satay & chicken wings, 3 times eating at Belacan Grill at Redondo Beach in Los Angeles!..Indian buffet, Seafood buffet! and other halal places... It wasn't feel like 13 days, when u have loads of happy times together!... Thank you Allah for this wonderful time..
Our holiday pictures at http://zienaz.fotopages.com/
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